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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-07-19 01:26:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-07-19 01:26:58 +0200 |
| commit | 711cb58db12e86b0108076dd88d8f0ad48f53e95 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ed3aadc525937a3581aeecdfea68c4070538a29 | |
| parent | c8ebbbc09b8d77c2514a1014968d88c3691036fa (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-711cb58db12e86b0108076dd88d8f0ad48f53e95.tar.gz | |
Issue #6476: Document that os.spawnle and os.spawnve are not thread-safe under Windows.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/os.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 326215f69a..9968e6e667 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -2052,7 +2052,9 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. os.spawnvpe(os.P_WAIT, 'cp', L, os.environ) Availability: Unix, Windows. :func:`spawnlp`, :func:`spawnlpe`, :func:`spawnvp` - and :func:`spawnvpe` are not available on Windows. + and :func:`spawnvpe` are not available on Windows. :func:`spawnle` and + :func:`spawnve` are not thread-safe on Windows; we advise you to use the + :mod:`subprocess` module instead. .. versionadded:: 1.6 |